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A Contrary, in some Native American cultures, is a person who adopts behavior deliberately the opposite of other tribal members. They play roles in certain ceremonies, as well as in the social structures of some communities.
Australian Tribes Australia DNA. − List of the 716 Individual Tribal Groups identified throughout Australia... reproduced with permission, George William (Buralnyarla) Helon's Aboriginal Australia: Register of Tribe, Clan, Horde, Linguistic Group, Language Names and AIATSIS Language Codes - Including Synonyms, Misnomers and Approximate ...
The Wakaman people, also spelt Wagaman, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the state of Queensland. According to some authorities, they may be interchangeable with the group identified by ethnographers as the Agwamin (aka Ewamin). Country The Wakaman are a savannah -dwelling people of the headwaters of the Lynd River, whose northern extension ran to Mungana and the neighbourhood of ...
The major indigenous language families of much of present-day South America and Panama (from Indigenous peoples of the Americas) Image 42 Chimu culture feather pectoral, feathers, reed, copper, silver, hide, cordage, c. 1350–1450 (from Indigenous peoples of the Americas )
Many of the Indigenous peoples died from Old World diseases to which they lacked any immunity. There were a number of advanced civilizations in the Americas, [ 10 ] but they did lack two important resources: a pack animal large enough to carry a human; and the ability to make steel for tools and weapons.
In the Americas, the term "Indigenous peoples of the Americas" was adopted, and the term is tailored to specific geographic or political regions, such as "Indigenous peoples of Panama". "'Indigenous peoples' ... is a term that internationalizes the experiences, the issues and the struggles of some of the world's colonized peoples", writes ...
Debra Krol reports on Indigenous communities at the confluence of climate, culture and commerce in Arizona and the Intermountain West. Reach Krol at debra.krol@azcentral.com. Follow her on X @debkrol.
Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere. [1]